Frances Perkins Impact On Society

Women throughout history have not been treated the same way as men however, this did not discourage them. One excellent example of women being extraordinary is Frances Perkins a young lady who grew up in a Republican household and whose parents made sure she understood the importance of hard work and her education. The interesting fact about Perkins life is that even though it was rare during her time period her parents expected her to go to college. Once in college, Mount Holyoke, she was encouraged to take the hardest courses given since she excelled in her studies therefore, she majored in physics with a minor in biology and chemistry. Even though she was focused on science she was greatly impacted by her American economic history Professor Annah May Soule who required her students to visit “the mills along the Connecticut River in neighboring Holyoke to observe working conditions there” and what Frances Perkins saw on …show more content…
In this appointment she manage to establish minimum wage, work hour limitation and the Social Security Act (Corrigan, Downey). Which meant she was an “important role in the development of Roosevelt’s New Deal programs” which helped with child labor laws (Biography.com Editors). Nowadays we see how this affects most people’s life like there’s people that believe minimum wage should increase, how people get paid more for overtime and how some get Social Security paychecks per month not to mention the fact you have to be sixteen to get a part time job in most states. The best part is that anyone being paid less than minimum wage could demand to be paid fairly. Furthermore, children are no longer working in factories at age of ten and now parents cannot force them to sacrifice their education to do a part time job since part of government spending is given to those in poverty or veterans re-entering